ITunes Music Previously On NTFS Volume

Greetings,
I have previously saved the contents of my iTunes to an NTFS volume (Win-7 on a PC) and now need to copy them over to 10.9.3. While OS-X will only read these files (which is fine for copy purposes) I am wondering if, once copied, anything need to be done to the perms prior to launching iTunes.
Current version of my OS-X is 10.9.4.
Any assistance greatly appreciated, and thank you.

Nothing aside from copying them to a writable drive is needed.
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